VOLUME 4 NUMBER 5 & 6 August 1997 An Explanation We begin this double issue of IGH with an apology for hav- will live long after we are no longer here to care for it. ing taken so long to get it into your hands. What happened is that for In any case, as grateful as we are to The University of Texas most of the last academic year we both thought we would be leaving for having given us the space to house the Collection for the past The University of Texas at Austin and taking our Physical Culture fifteen years, we thought that we should listen carefully to the offers Collection and ourselves to another university. Accordingly, we of a university would be willing to significantly improve our work- decided last winter to print the next issue only after we knew for cer- ing conditions and provide us space and staff which would help us tain where we would be. As it happened, however, two universities realize our dream. As it happens, the most attractive of these two were interested in having us and our collection, we were torn between offers came from Penn State University in State College, Pennsyl- the two, and the months dragged on without a decision. vania. Penn State has the best Sport History program in Both universities offered us good positions and the United States and they already have an excel- both were anxious to help us refine and orga- lent sports archive, so from an academic nize our holdings. Even so, to create two standpoint it seemed to be an ideal fit. professorial positions and make room However, as we thought about leaving for a collection which takes up The University of Texas, where our almost five thousand square feet patron —the late Roy J. McLean of space involves complicated —had worked, collected mate- negotiations and takes time. rials about lifting, and taught Thus the delay. weight training for fifty years, Although we had we realized that our dream was sought out neither position, we tightly interwoven with Mac’s were open to the offers because dream of having such a collection we were disappointed that a place housed at his (and our) beloved alma for our collection had not been creat- mater. ed as plans were drafted several years Another factor is that some ago for the remodeling of Gregory Gym, of the books in the Collection are the prop- where our library and related materials had been erty of U.T. and would not have been part of housed for over a decade. We thought that a move what wewould have transferred to Penn State. We might allow us to maintain and operate the Collection in a way which also have family, friends, and academic colleagues in this area we would make it more accessible to fans and scholars of the iron game. would have sorely missed had we left So, for these and other relat- Since we aquired the Ottley Coulter Collection over twenty years ed reasons, we finally reached what has been the most difficult deci- ago, it has been our dream and firm intention to do everything we sion in our professional lives — the decision to stay here in Austin. could to bring together the most comprehensive collection of mate- Having made the decision, we are filled with determination to work rials in the world in the field of physical culture, to make that col- with various agencies of the University and create a permanent, lection available to iron gamers around the country and world, and well-funded home for the Collection, a home that will insure the Col- to see that the collection is properly housed and organized so that it lection a long a productive life. This work has begun and we will IRON GAME HISTORY VOLUME 4 NUMBERS 5 & 6 inform you of progress as it occurs. articles as the one about Apollon you’ll find on page twenty. As soon as we made the decision to stay, we put the fin- Again, we apologize for the delay and we ask for your under- ishing touches on this issue, after having decided to do two issues standing in this matter. We also ask for your continued support and in one as a way of apologizing to those of you who have been our we would appreciate any input you have regarding articles, format, supporters through the years. One of the problems we’ve faced and so on. As you might imagine, it takes quite a bit of time and effort from time to time as we’ve produced IGH is the problem of having to put IGH together. It is a strictly non-profit venture for us and to severely edit long articles. Accordingly, beginning with the next for all of our writers, who pitch in to make it happen for the same rea- issue, we will increase the size of an average issue from twenty- sons we began and continue it—we love the Iron Game and we want four to thirty-six pages. In order to be able to print the journal with- to honor our pioneers. Just as Robert Oppenheimer said as he accept- out taking a loss, we will issue approximately four issues a year ed the Nobel Prize, “I have stood on the shoulders of giants.” Our instead of six. As subscribers, you will still get the number of pages intention is to honor those giants by describing their accomplishments for which you have paid, but they will be printed in issues which will accurately so that those who have come lately to our game will under- be approximately fifty percent longer, thus allowing us to print such stand what manner of men and women have gone before. 2 IRON GAME HISTORY VOLUME 4 NUMBERS 5 & 6 IRON GAME HISTORY VOL. 4 NOS. 5 & 6 PATRON TABLE OF CONTENTS August 1997 SUBSCRIBERS Page L An Explanation . Terry Todd John Balik, Vic Boff, Bill Brewer, Dean Camenares, 3. Weightlifting’s Patron Saint . .Jim Murray James Compton, Robert Conciatori, Mr & Mrs. Bruce 6. The All-Inclusive Body. Kenneth Dutton Conner, Peter DeAngelis, Michael Dennis, Salva- 13. Too Many Cookes. .David P. Webster tore Franchino, Dr. Martin French, Dr. Peter George, 16. Grapevine . Ken Rosa and Staff Mike Graham, Fairfax Hackley, Luis Ibanez, Nor- 20. Apollon. .Desbonnet/Chapman man Komich, Jack Lano, James Lorimer, David Mills, Don McEachren, Dr. Walter Marcyan, Dr. Co-Editors . .. Terry and Jan Todd Executive Editor . Dorothy J. Lovett Spencer Maxcy, Piedmont Design Associates, Terry Creative Consultant. Steve Bittick Robinson, John Roche, Ulf Salvin, In Memory of Joe Business Manager. Kim Beckwith Santillo, Frederick Schutz, Harry Schwartz, Frank Stranahan, Dr. Ted Thompson, Frank Tirelli, Kevin Editorial Board . John Balik (Santa Monica, Wade, Joe Weider, Fred Yale, Harold Zinkin. CA), Jack Berryman (U. of Washington – Seattle), Vic Boff (Fort Meyers, FL), John Fair (Georgia College and State University – Millidgeville, GA), William H. Goetzmann (U. FELLOWSHIP SUBSCRIBERS of Texas – Austin), John Grimek (York, PA), John Hoberman Anonymous, Joe Assirati, Bob Bacon, Regis Becker, John Ben- (U. of Texas – Austin), Joe Roark (St. Joseph, IL), Al Thomas son, Alfred C. 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(ISSN 1069-7276) 2 AUGUST 1997 IRON GAME HISTORY WEIGHTLIFTING ’S NON-LIFTING PATRON SAINT Jim Murray A man who never lifted weights boosted general accep- question period, the opportunity arose to test the legend. Very sweet- tance of weight training as much as anyone else — and more than ly, (I) said, addressing Mr. Hoffman ‘Will you please ask Mr. Grimek most. His name: Dr. Peter V. Karpovich. to scratch his back between the shoulder blades?’ There was silence. Dr. Karpovich was one of the most respected exercise phys- Hoffman looked at Grimek, Grimek looked at Hoffman. Then they iologists of his time, teaching and conducting innovative experiments and everybody else looked at (me). in what he called his “junkshop laboratory” at Springfield (Mas- “Said Hoffman, ‘And why do you want Grimek to scratch sachusetts) College.